Azuka Theatre presents a one-night-only concert performance of its smash production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Monday, December 8 at The Troc, 10th & Race Streets, Philadelphia. Dito van Reigersberg and Kim Carson will reprise their roles under the direction of Azuka's Kevin Glaccum. The show benefits Azuka Theatre's 2008-2009 season.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. performance are $25.00-$75.00 and are available by calling Azuka at 215-733-0255, or online at www.azukatheatre.org.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a musical about an East German transgender woman who becomes a rock star. The text is by John Cameron Mitchell, and the music and lyrics are by Stephen Trask. Since its 1998 premiere, the show has been performed worldwide and has been made into a successful film.

Critics and audiences loved Azuka's spring 2008 production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It was named 'Best Musical of the 2007-2008 season' by The Philadelphia Weekly, and won Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director of a Musical honors from the newspaper as well. Hedwig went on to receive five Barrymore Award nominations, with Kim Carson winning for Best Actress in a Musical.

Dito van Reigersberg is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Pig Iron Theatre Company. He has also made his mark in Philadelphia with his drag persona Martha Graham-Cracker, who plays to sold-out shows monthly at L'Etage Cabaret. Kim Carson is a Barrymore Award winning actress who has previously worked with Walnut Street Theater, People's Light and Theater Company and The Arden Theater.

"I'm thrilled to be doing Hedwig again, said van Reigersberg. "We had so much fun doing this at The Latvian Society. The audience reaction was amazing. I can't wait to do the show in the Troc. In such a large space the energy should be incredible!" "Hedwig is our most successful show ever," says Azuka Theatre Producing Artistic Director Kevin Glaccum. "We knew we would eventually do the show again in one form or another, but the demand was so great we decided to do it now rather than make fans wait! And the concert version will be the entire show people fell in love with last spring."

Azuka Theatre was founded in 1999 by a group of artists participating in the Arden Theatre Company's nationally recognized Professional Apprentice Program. Azuka Theatre has built a reputation for accessible, thought-provoking and socially minded theatre.

Over the past nine seasons, Azuka Theatre has produced fifteen plays and been hailed as "a company to watch" and a "major player on the Philadelphia alternative theatre scene," by The Philadelphia Weekly. In 1999 the company was awarded the Philadelphia Gay News' LAMDA Award for Outstanding Arts Event for their first production, La Rue des Faux. Azuka Theatre received two earlier Barrymore Award nominations: Outstanding New Play for An Artist's Workshop (2004), and Best Actress in a Play for Mary Martello in The Boys (2006).